Fix error with pip _get_installed_distributions
#1494
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What
Fixing an issue that many people faced, including me, due to using an internal pip function
Associated issue
#1459
Solution
replacing
_get_installed_distributions
with a custom functionget_installed_packages
that usespkg_resources
instead.At the same time, this new function allows us to have a dictionary of (lib -> version) which is better than a list (see below)
Before
After